Generative AI assistants: everything everywhere all at once

Locked in a battle over the integration of their respective machine learning assistants into their office suites, Microsoft and Google have announced a number of very attractive, and very similar automation features — email, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation programs, etc.,.

Microsoft’s integration of ChatGPT has resulted in Copilot — as it did after it bought Github in 2018 — that works as a personal assistant with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams, and applies generative AI to anything from writing documents or creating spreadsheets to developing presentations, transcribing meetings, etc. The video below convincingly demonstrates applications, albeit in a rather idealized way: performance will depend on each case, fluency and the respective tools, as well as on the ability to formulate those tasks through the appropriate prompts at each moment:

Google’s Workspace includes AI features for Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides or Calendar, and can carry write emails and texts, create a presentation, a spreadsheet, etc. Again, the demonstration…